Fabienne Moore
Professor of French
Director of Graduate Studies, Romance Languages
French, Romance Languages, College of Arts and Sciences, Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages
Email: fmoore@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4032
Office: UO Annex 118
Office Hours: Spring 2026: Thursday 9-11 am and by appt. Call 541-346-4032 to get in UO Annex 118
Research Interests: Early European romanticism; Chateaubriand; European Enlightenment; French & Haitian Revolutions; French and Francophone cultural and literary history; prose poetry; bande dessinées & graphic narratives; blue humanities
Education
- Ph.D., Comparative Literature, New York University, 2001
- Maîtrise, English, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, France,1989
Research Interests
Struggles for liberty and equality; Chateaubriand; Staël; French & Haitian Revolutions; Early European romanticism; European Enlightenment and counter-Enlightenment; Prose poetry; French cultural and literary history; translation (theory, history, practice); bande dessinées and graphic narratives; blue humanities.
Research
Authored Book
- Chateaubriand Across Empires. Bucknell University Press. June 2026.
- Prose Poems of the French Enlightenment: Delimiting Genre. Ashgate Publishing Company, 2009. Reprinted by Routledge, 2017.
Refereed Book Chapters
- “The Reception of Homer in the French Enlightenment.” In Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Homer from Byzantium to the Enlightenment. Vol. 2. Edited by Christina Panagiota Manolea and François Renaud. Leden, Netherlands: Brill, 2026. p. 291-332.
- "Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Glass Harmonica." In Staël’s Philosophy of the Passions. Sensibility, Society, and the Sister Arts . Eds. Tili Boon Cuillé and Karyna Szmurlo. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press. 2013. p. 263-280.
- “Early French Romanticism.” In A Companion to European Romanticism, Michael Ferber ed. 600 p. Blackwell: December 2005. p. 172-191.
Refereed Journal Articles
- “A Compromised Commerce with East India: Lucien Bonaparte’s La Tribu indienne, ou Édouard et Stellina (1799).” Studies in Romanticism 59. Summer 2020.
- “Gustave Doré’s Histoire de la Sainte Russie (1854): The Invention of Graphic Rhetoric, or the Artist At War.” Dix-Neuf. Journal of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes. 2019. DOI: 10.1080/14787318.2019.1667686
- “From Spain’s Moors to Spain’s Colonies: Chateaubriand’s Mapping of Liberty and Equality in Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage.” Nineteenth Century-Studies French Studies 46: 3-4. Spring-Summer 2018. Special dossier on Chateaubriand: Mapping the Post-Revolutionary World edited by Jean-Marie Roulin.
- “Pour une sémiotique de l'espace de la petite maison. ‘La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe’ dans La Petite Maison de Jean-François de Bastide (1758). Modern Language Notes 131:4, September 2016. p,1042-160.
- “How to Reconquer Poiesis? Florian’s Gonzalve de Cordoue or Granada Reconquered (1791).” In Poiesis and Modernity in the Old and New Worlds, eds. Anthony J. Cascardi and Leah Middlebrook. Nashville: Hispanic Issues. 2012. p. 225-256.
- “The Poetry of the Super-Enlightenment. The Theories and Practices of Cazotte, Chassaignon, Mercier, Saint-Martin and Bonneville.” SVEC 2010:01 (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). p.137-166.
- “1711: The Advent of Homer in French Prose. An Anatomy of Madame Dacier’s Ground-Breaking Translation.” SVEC 2008: 06 (Oxford: The Voltaire Foundation). p.193-213.
- “The Crocodile Strikes Back. Saint-Martin’s Interpretation of the French Revolution.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction. October 2006, 19:1-2. p.71-97.
- “Baudelaire et les poëmes en prose du dix-huitième siècle. De Fénelon à Chateaubriand.” Special edition of the Bulletin baudelairien on Prose Poetry (The W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Vanderbilt University). April-December 2005. p.113-143.
- “Almanach des Muses vs. Almanach des Prosateurs: The Economics of Poetry and Prose at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century.” Dalhousie French Studies. Summer 2004, 67. p.17-35.
- “Homer Revisited: Anne Le Fèvre Dacier’s Preface to Her Prose Translation of the Iliad in Early Eighteenth Century France.” Special edition of Studies in the Literary Imagination on “Translation, Imitation, and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination,” Fall 2000, 33:2. p.87-107.
- “Revolution or ‘Deplorable School’? Chateaubriand’s Analysis of French and British Romanticism in the Mémoires d’outre-tombe.” European Romantic Review, Spring 1999, 10:2. p.231-241.
- “Chateaubriand’s Alter Egos: Napoleon, Madame de Staël, and the Indian Savage.” European Romantic Review, Spring 1998, 9:2. p.187-200.
Refereed Dictionary Entries
2024 "La réception de Chateaubriand en Angleterre, en Amérique du Nord, en Amérique du Sud." Dictionnaire de Chateaubriand. Eds. Pierino Gallo, Marika Piva and Aurelio Principato. Paris: Champion.
Translations
Mário Pinto de Andrade, The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act. African Culture and Decolonilization. Edited by Lanie Millar. Translated by Lanie Millar and Fabienne Moore. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2024.
Wallace Shawn, La Fièvre. Translated by Fabienne Moore. Paris: Les Editions du Paquebot, 2014.
Publications
- 2026: "The missing (True) Story of Black Survivors on Tromelin Island (1761-1776), American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
- 2025: "On Display: Six Osages in Europe (1827), Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Reno, NV.
- 2025: Re-authorizing the "Contrat social:" Nicolas de Bonneville's Periodical La Bouche de Fer (1790-91). American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
- 2025 "Enslaved Blacks & Enslaved Amerindians in Chateaubriand's Les Natchez (1825-26)." Modern Language Association, New Orleans.
- 2024: "When Nineteenth-Century Anglophone and Hipanic Literature Appropriates Chateaubriand." The Semicentenial Ninetwwenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Duke University, Durham, NC.
- 2024 "The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Tromelin Island, of the Idian Ocean." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Toronto, Canada.
- 2023: "Chateaubriand's Paradoxes: Joining the Enlightenment's Debate on Nature vs. Civilisation." American Societry for Eighteenth-Century Studies. St Louis, MO.
- 2023: "On Collaboration as the New Standart." Modern Language Association. San Francisco, CA.
- 2020: "Le droit à la respiration. A view from Oregon." Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies International Virtual Colloquium.
- 2019: “On Linking Histoire des deux Indes to the First French Empire: Staël, Chateaubriand, Napoleon, and Lucien Bonaparte readers of Raynal.” International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Edinburgh, Scotland.
- 2019: “Enacting Politics: The Cercle Social and the Bouche de Fer (1790-91).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Denver, CO.
- 2019: “The Mitigated Reception of Chateaubriand in Early America (1802-1830): Emerson's pastiche, Flint's quotations, Cooper's reminiscences.” Society of Early Americanists biennial conference. Eugene, OR.
- 2018: “Chateaubriand équivoque: esclavage et traite en clair-obscur. Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium. Manhattan Beach, CA.
- 2017 “On Linking Histoire des deux Indes to the First French Empire: Staël, Constant, Chateaubriand, Napoleon, and Lucien Bonaparte Readers of Raynal.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Minneapolis, MN.
- 2015: “Un commerce des Indes désenchanté : La Tribu indienne, ou Edouard et Stellina de Lucien Bonaparte (1799).” ISECS – SIEDS 14th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Rotterdam, Netherlands
- 2015: “Implementing the Social Contract with Participatory News in Revolutionary France: Nicolas de Bonneville’s Periodical La Bouche de fer (1790-91).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Los Angeles, CA.
- 2014: "Chateaubriand's Moors." American Comparative Literature Association. New York, NY.
- 2015: “Alexander von Humbolt (1769-1859) lu et revu par Chateaubriand (1768-1848).” VII International and Interdisciplinary Conference in Homage to Alexander von Humboldt, Claudio Gay and Ignacio Domeyko. Santiago, Chile.
- 2013: “La rencontre du libertinage et du luxe.” Pour une sémiotique de l’espace de la petite maison.Consuming Passions conference. Washington University in Saint-Louis.
- 2012: “United Citizens of Le Cercle Social: An Examination of Nicolas de Bonneville’s Periodical La Bouche de fer (1790-91).” North East American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
- 2012: “La Révolution d'Atala (1801).” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. San Antonio, TX.
- 2011: “Philosophical Visions, Prophetic Poetry: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and Nicolas de Bonneville.” Western Society for French History, Portland, OR.
- 2011: “Executing Poetry: Coqueley de Chaussepierre's Le Roué vertueux (1770)." American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Vancouver.
- 2010: "Corinne ou l’Europe. Linking Germaine de Staël’s Europe to XXIth century Europe.” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Albuquerque.
- 2009: “1800: Germaine de Staël Defines Romanticism, or the Analogy of the Harmonica.” International Germaine de Staël Symposium. Washington University in Saint Louis.
Honors and Awards
- 2026 Oregon Humanities Center, Ernest G. Moll Faculty Research Fellowship in Literary Studies
- 2024 Provost Book Publication Recognition for Mário Pinto de Andrade, The Revolution Will Be a Poetic Act: African Culture and Decolonialization. Edited by Lanie Millar. Translated by Lanie Millar and Fabienne Moore. ($5,000). Shared with Lanie Millar.
- 2023 Global Justice Program: "Classic Threats and New Responses in Europe's 21st Century Order" ($4,500). With Craig Parsons.
- Winter 2021: Oregon Humanities Center fellowship
- 2019-20: Language Learning Innovation for Teaching for 200-level course Identities in Francophone Comics ($2,500)
- 2019-20: Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship in the Humanities for FR 460/560 Law & Empire of the Seas
- Summer 2019: CAS International Travel Grant ($1,000)
- Summer 2017: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend for the Humanities ($5,500)
- Summer 2017: Summer Research Award, Office of the Vice-President for Research, U. of Oregon ($5,500)
- Summer 2015: College of Arts and Sciences Summer Stipend for the Humanities
- 2011-2012: Sherl K. Coleman and Margaret E. Guitteau Teaching Professorship in the Humanities for FR 399 “War in French Comics”
- Fall 2010: Oregon Humanities Center fellowship
- Summer 2010: Summer Research Award, Office of the Vice-President for Research, U. of Oregon
- March 2009: Visiting professor, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
- Sept. 2008: Guest scholar, Maison de Chateaubriand, Chatenay-Malabry
- Sept. 2007: Guest scholar, Maison de Chateaubriand, Chatenay-Malabry